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EquityNYC, a data-driven website to track racial and social equity metrics in New York City has won an Anthem award in the category of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion – Digital & Innovative Experiences. The Anthem Awards honors the purpose & mission-driven work of people, companies and organizations worldwide. The project was a collaboration between Blenderbox and the NYC Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity.

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MySchools NYC, the online enrollment platform for the City public school system, has won an Anthem award in the category of Education, Art & Culture – Innovation. The Anthem Awards honors the purpose & mission-driven work of people, companies, and organizations worldwide. The project was a collaboration between Blenderbox and the NYC DOE, and the platform serves over 1.1 million students in more than 1,800 schools.

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We were invited by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Efficiency to bring our expertise in user research for digital products to an event promoting ways in which City agencies can deliver better Customer Experience to all citizens of New York. The event took place at World Trade Center with every agency’s Chief Performance Officer (CPO) in attendance. The CX goals for the City include reducing the regulatory burden or reducing requirements needed for New Yorkers to access agency services, as well as finding ways to solicit and address feedback from New Yorkers to inform improvements. We ran a table with information about the benefits of bringing in a neutral third party to user-test digital products and execute recommended changes. We also advised on the types of research that are beneficial, especially when it comes to building inclusive, accessible and human-centered digital products.

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Blenderbox has helped New York Blood Center, a fast-growing national blood donation and research center, reorganize its divisional websites with the launch of a new website dedicated to its parent organization—New York Blood Center Enterprises. This parent site is a key part of a WordPress Multisite Network, which allows their team to manage complex content governance workflows designed to serve web content to their diverse audiences through action-oriented conversion funnels.

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Blenderbox is proud to add Oakland Unified School District to our prestigious roster of public school districts using our flagship product—EnrollWise—to advance equity, agency, and accessibility for all families in their admissions process. Nearly 50,000 students can now choose among 80 schools across Oakland via the EnrollWise-powered Choose OUSD website.

EnrollWise is a best-in-class admissions and enrollment platform for public school districts that empowers families to make informed decisions and allows schools to perform fair and equitable student placements.

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With the new administration came the consolidation of several climate-related City Agencies and initiatives into one new one: The Mayor’s Office for Climate and Environmental Justice. We partnered with the Agency to define, design and develop their new website. The project started with discovery and a comprehensive content audit, followed by the creation of a new content strategy to align the new site with their goals and objectives. The site is built on WordPress and designed with scalability and accessibility in mind.

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The State of Childhood Obesity is an initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It synthesizes the best-available data, showcases success stories, and makes policy recommendations around obesity prevention. As public awareness has grown, the tools, data and reports needed to affect change have shifted. Blenderbox has helped RWJF respond to those changing needs with a redesign of this award-winning program website to improve usability on both the public-facing site as well as behind the scenes in the content management system.

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Mapping Equity, a data-driven, map-based experience to track racial and social equity metrics in New York City has won a W3 award in the Government category. The W3 awards are sanctioned by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA), an assembly of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media.

The site shows a geographic picture of New Yorkers’ quality of life, where City services are located, the neighborhoods where people who receive City services live, and general characteristics about NYC’s population. The project was a collaboration between Blenderbox and the NYC Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity, and is an extension of the EquityNYC website, which launched in early 2021.

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International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) is a global leader in promotion and protection of democracy. After an in-depth discovery to audit and evaluate the organization’s business requirements and objectives, we delivered a completely re-architected and re-designed site that runs on a robust and scalable Drupal CMS, and which provides the IFES team with powerful editorial tools to manage their online presence.